This half term, year 4 are focusing on their basketball skills and health related fitness during PE lessons. Children have been working hard to develop their dribbling skills and ball control before entering into team games. The children are throughly enjoying their lessons as they can see their own improvements Read more…
This morning, Hawthorn were visited by the school nurses to tell us all about healthy eating. During our session, the nurses spoke to us about having a health diet and how much sugar some of our food contains! Children were asked about their diets and to reflect on the foods Read more…
This week, as a school, we have taken part in Anti-bullying week. This years theme has been ‘Choose Respect’ our Anti-bullying Ambassadors completed an assembly about the week and everyone had the chance to show off their odd socks! Across school we completed activities based on the theme. We have Read more…
During computing lessons this half term, Year 4 are focusing on using Micro:bits!we are working together to programme the micro:bits to complete a variety of instructions and commands. The children are showing off some very impressive computing skills! This week the children have been able to programme the micro:bits to Read more…
For our final Art lesson, we created our own prints using different materials to show off our skills learnt during the half term. Children worked collaboratively to create their designs and print onto the materials.
During financial awareness week, we were lucky enough to have a visit from Steph who taught us all about her job within finance and teach us about fraud. During this week, we learnt a lot about careers that can be held within the finance industry. We worked together to see Read more…
This half term, year 4 are focusing on structure during their DT topic. For the first lesson, the children worked together to create small 3D structures that we are to stand alone. They create different shapes to hold together and begin to understand how structures need stability and reinforcement.
During our Art lessons, we have been creating pieces of art work focusing on precision using scissors to create the first picture and then creating our own scratch picture with wax crayons and paint, to re-crate the original picture. The children did so well concentrating hard to ensure they could Read more…
This week we made some sweet puff pastry tarts. Children were able to cut out the shapes they wanted and filled the puff pastry with sweet treats which we hen cooked in the air fryers. We certainly have some budding chefs on our hands as children have created some of Read more…
This half term we are focusing on two skills based on our Skills Builder programme. Our focus is listening and speaking. Children reflected on themselves as a learner and how they rate themselves in terms of listening and speaking. We thought about the types of jobs that require excellent listening Read more…